School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gabhrán, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- (continued from previous page)teach the children of that house free. So that was the way they carried on. There was no Irish at that time and it was used in any subjects. They used to write on slates with slate pencils.
- 11-4-38 Old Schools
Schools were held at the back of hedges, and lonesome places where the English soldiers would not see them. And they were not strangers but they did not speak any Irish. They be arranged from class to class in first second and third and so on and so in the winter time they had to pay for their own firing.- Collector
- Sarah Prendergast
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Na Stanga, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Na Stanga, Co. Chill Chainnigh